beauty all around you. .
Monday, October 27, 2008
adding more romance to your life is easy, today — there is beauty all around you. adding more romance to your life doesn’t always mean turning up the heat on a love relationship. romance should be a part of everything in your life, in the truest sense of the word. today, try to ensure that what you see is beautiful, what you hear is mellifluous, and what you eat is delicious. give yourself the gift of pleasurable moments that you can look back at in the future. now’s a great time to splurge on yourself and make yourself feel extra-special..
that’s what my horoscope tells me a few days back. i was never a fan but i browse it just for the heck of reading it and it gives me an excuse to ponder about certain things in my life - like happiness.
what is the good life? does money indeed buy happiness? i learned that the good life springs less from earning one’s first million than from loving and being loved. from developing the traits that mark happy lives, from finding connection and meaningful hope in faith communities, and from experiencing “flow” in work and recreation. materialism surged during the 70’s and 80’s. materialism was up, spirituality down. so believing that it is “very important” to be very well-off financially, and having seen our privileged circumstances ratchet upward little by little over four decades, are we now happier?
the real thing. . .
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
here comes the night
once again, i’ll be feeling lonely
oh, if only things could work out like you plan
where can love be?
tell me why it’s so hard to find somebody who will stand by me
and take the time to understand and show me love againi want the real thing, or nothing at all
i need someone that i can be sure will catch me if i should fall
someone who’ll be there when i call
then i’ll know that it’s the real thing
i want the real thing
to hold me each night someone to love me over and over
making the future bright, somebody who’ll make it alright
and give me the real thingwhere is the moon? won’t it smile on just one more dreamer
let your beams come down, and fill my empty room
here comes the night, but if there’s still a chance that love can find me
i’ll be herecrossing my fingersi want to know for sure that i can feel secure
knowing i’ve found an everlasting love
and once i get that under control
then i won’t let go. . .
long, hard (yet sweet) road ahead. . .
Saturday, September 27, 2008
i’ve always been a fan of jason magbanua, and i just wanted to share with you one of my favorite SDE from his site.
The magic moment is at 2:41 - pure love!
- jason magbanua
trish 102. . .
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
as my destiny was being written before my eyes, i smiled at the way kids don’t carry around the terrible adult baggage of what we ought to look like. . .bo sanchez
warning: this post is not for the halfhearted 
my friends and i flew to manila for glenn and muning’s wedding. she informed me that i will be included on the “bachelorette” list for the much coveted “bridal bouquet”. they say that whoever gets it, will be next in line. usually, the bride would throw the bouquet over her shoulder, to be caught by single women.
today, it was strategically “staged” so that everybody would participate and make it a little more dignified, rather than having to tear your dress to get it.
anyhow, weng’s got an exciting twist to it. the bouquet was attached to strands of gold ribbons, and you have to choose which ones you are going to hold on to. however, one ribbon would be attached to the bouquet, and whoever gets it, has to suffer a number of consequence! really. scenarios of exiting the venue run through my head. alas, my name was called. we formed a semi-circle around the bride and my good friend stood beside me and our conversation goes:
gigi: “trish, akin na lang yang ribbon mo..”
i looked and visually traced where her ribbon goes, and according to my calculation, hers would have the bouquet.
me: “ayoko nga!!”
lo and behold!
(more…)
girls just wanna have fun. . .
Sunday, August 17, 2008
to the lamp of love - may it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial. .
take me away. . .
Sunday, August 3, 2008 had a chat with my tukayo recently, and i was surprised (and sad) to find out that we share the same sentiments. i remember when i first met her (12 years ago -with jai, karen, isay, dindin and the rest of the phimusic netizens), she came to me like an angel that descended from heaven to shower some bliss in my life. true enough, she was with me from “singleness” to “separateness”. we can go on chattering for hours and never get tired of each other. she has this insanely contagious hilarity that echoes even after you’ve parted ways. .
she’s the type of friend that you can always count on with just a text away – even if the last conversation you’ve had was years ago! She is definitely one friend whom i would keep forever and no matter what life throws us, we would always have each other to lean on. .
anyhow, just wanted to share with you that she is one lucky girl to be working with these hunks!! and i miss her terribly *pouts* wish i was there!
this time all i want is you. . there is no one else
who can take your place. . this time you burned me with your eyes
you see past all the lies. . you take it all away
take me away. . take me away
i’ve got nothing left to say
just take me away
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sueñe en. . .
Monday, June 30, 2008when i dream, i am ageless if you have a dream, give it a chance to happen
many of us give up on our dreams. often our dreams slip away without our even realizing it. we get over-involved with they day-to-day responsibilities of being a wife, husband, parent, full-time worker, etc. we know that we are eventful at the moment, but we’ll get back chasing our dreams "some day". we really will.
but then ’some day’ doesn’t happen and it seems too hard to get back to where we were when we were first excited about our dreams. it becomes ‘too late’ or ‘impossible’ to pursue, so we give up and walk away.
but inside, something is still missing. we know we’re happy but we figure it’s the job, or the relationship (or lack of) that is making us melancholic. if we could only make more money, lose 10 pounds, or find the perfect mate, etc., then everything would fall into place.
but how can things fall into place when we’ve forgotten ourselves? our dreams are who we are. they give us an incentive to get out of bed everyday. they are the reason we were born, and our destiny to fulfill while we are here.
mirror image. . .
Monday, June 23, 2008Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand
mother teresa
sophia loren once said that when you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. a mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. my pretty mystery turned 6 this june and it made me think how everything she said was true.
unwritten. . .
Saturday, June 21, 2008
for the past months, i’ve been in this crazy rollercoaster ride, and what a trip!
“ as i ascend, i see the ground below me and rise towards the sky.. “
last quarter of 2007 was sensitively exhausting and it wasn’t easy to let go of situations that are really close to my heart. for i know that it’ll drag me along the way, so i prayed for courage and strength to go beyond. it’s not fair to have someone waiting for you and suddenly realize later on that you really can’t move forward with that person (situation).
“as i reach the top, thoughts are all muddled; trepidation, unrest, anticipation. . “
early this year, i was asked to assist our clinics in marina walk and jumeirah. being away from my best friend really took its toll on me. i miss our nutella-banana-brown bread moments, our endless talks, wedding plans, or simply being next to each other and make fun of anything trivial. on the other hand, i like the fact that im doing extremely well with work, plus a profit share on my payslip every month! on my second month as a “mobile” worker, i got the flu and it took me weeks to recover *pouts*.
“then a sudden stop, all major organs in my throat as i prepare myself for the revolting descent. .”
hehehehe